Atm Networks [Paperback]

Othmar Kyas (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1995

ATMs are important in the management of multimedia and client server technologies. Now managers can discover how ATMs are used for LANs and WANs, and how they can be set up, customized, and successfully managed. Providing protocols and hardware specs throughout, here is an essential guide for all network managers and administrators applying this new technology.

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From the Back Cover

The complete, up-to-date ATM guide for every network planner, designer, implementer, and manager.

• ATM network planning, design, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, and security
• New standards, including Loop Emulation Service over AAL-2 and frame-based ATM
• Test and selection criteria for ATM network components and cable infrastructure
• ATM network operation, including traffic control, performance parameters, and testing
• Detailed coverage of ATM security standards and techniques

Despite the arrival of Packet over SONET/SDH, one technology is at the heart of today's most important broadband and wireless networks: ATM. ATM Networks combines a complete and authoritative description of ATM standards with practical solutions for the key challenges facing ATM network implementers and managers. Clear, concise, and fully up to date, it covers every element and variant of current ATM networks, offering specific best practices for design, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, and security. Coverage includes:

• How ATM evolved to become the world's universal platform for networked communications
• Up-to-the-minute standards coverage, including ATM over Plastic Optical Fiber, Loop Emulation Service over AAL-2, frame-based ATM, and secure ATM
• ATM network planning, design, and migration techniques
• Test and selection criteria for ATM network components
• In-depth coverage of security and cable infrastructure issues
• ATM network operation: traffic control mechanisms, performance parameters, and test methods

Key information is included for network designers, implementers, and managers, including ATM UNI and NNI signaling protocol messages and information elements, parameters and limitations for high speed cabling systems, and ATM Forum contact information.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

OTHMAR KYAS is Product Marketing Section Manager for the Network Systems Test Division of Agilent Technologies. With over eleven years at Agilent (formerly Hewlett-Packard), Kyas has been a leader in developing Agilent's telecommunications products in the ATM, WAN, and LAN marketplaces. He holds an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology, Vienna.

GREGAN CRAWFORD is Product Marketing Manager for the Network Systems Test Division of Agilent Technologies. He has been involved with ATM and ATM testing since the mid 1980s. From 1993 to 1999, he was the first chair of the ATM Forum's Test Working Group and a member of the ATM Forum's Technical Committee management team. He is currently Agilent's primary representative for the ATM Forum and has contributed to several books on ATM.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Computer (June 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0442020007
• ISBN-13: 978-0442020002
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,062,725 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent intermediate book - and it comes with a poster!, February 27, 1997

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This review is from: Atm Networks (Paperback)

This is the book you'll want to buy when you get tired of the ATM propaganda. For the intermediate to advanced user
who needs to get into the guts of the protocols. Very good
diagrams.